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Use Better Questions Like These for Innovation Thinking
Accelerating change means adapt and innovate or become irrelevant. Without innovation thinking and a willingness to try new things, you won’t survive. Innovation requires...
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Transformational leadership style: Why CEOs don’t innovate
Why don’t CEO’s innovate? The transformational leadership style needed for innovation includes leadership skills beyond effective plan execution. A global survey...
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Change Management Strategy:Tactics for Disrupted Organizations
Disrupted? Here’s a 50,000-foot view of what that looks like. There are three fields of influence you need to...
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Disrupted? Managing Change More Effective with Soft Skills
Leaders who use soft skills when managing change equip folks to handle the underlying currents of disruption. Why don’t more organizations value leadership soft skills? I think...
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Don’t Let Your Budget Process Derail Innovative Thinking
Disrupted organizations relying on scale for growth reach a tipping point when efficiency without innovation sets them up for collapse...
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Change Fatigue: New Year Reflections on Change Dynamics
As a change leader, it’s natural to look forward with renewed hope and vigor at the start of a...
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Embrace Contrarians for Insight
Allies for Overcoming Resistance to Change? I think I was 7 or 8 years old the first time someone...
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Managing Change Fatigue
One of my clients sensed his team members were facing change fatigue. He asked me, “How do you know...
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Employee Engagement Strategies: Here’s One Idea
This week, I’m doing a webinar on using field trips as a tactic in employee engagement strategies. Like any complex...
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Organizational Performance:Turbocharging High Performance Teams
Yesterday I did a workshop for a large entrenched hierarchical organization where the point of the exercise was getting...
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Impactful Team Development Incorporates Experiential Learning
Ingredients of Impactful Team Development Does this sound familiar? Your team is full of really bright people. They love situations with clearly defined outcomes and are eager for the freedom to figure out how to design good solutions. Great! Is …Read More »
How to Make Better Decisions
What ingredients make for better decisions? No question good analytics contribute. But, sometime, the algorithmic fringe holds a key to innovative insights. The margin also has clues to unintended consequences. Pre-mortems that flush out unintended consequences add a layer to …Read More »
Why Digital Transformation Is Not Enough
Is the digital “cool factor” running you? Are you so consumed by keeping up with what’s new in digital transformation, you’re overlooking this: data does little to transcend the social and political pitfalls of uncertain times. It bothers me when …Read More »